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Lol as if he was ever actually elected.
Submitted 17 hours ago by RegularJoe@lemmy.world to history@lemmy.world
Lol as if he was ever actually elected.
Definitely not, but Marxist-Leninist states like China tend to have collective leadership such that one-party authoritarianism doesn't collapse into one-man authoritarianism. Neither is especially egalitarian, but there is a difference.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s as though there’s been an unbroken pact from regime to regime, whether through inheritance or war, from old to new, from the vanquished to the victor:
Under no circumstances must our citizens experience freedom. Authoritarian then, now, and forever.
We don’t need to, but we’re gonna do it anyway.